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Happy Christmas from Katherine Research Station Katherine Research Station PO Box 1346, Katherine NT 0851 Phone: (08) 8973 9739 Fax: (08) 8973 9777 [email protected] ISSN 0394-9823 www.nt.gov.au/drdpifr EDITION 293 D e c / J a n 2 0 0 8 / 0 9 Happy Christmas from Katherine Research Station Neil MacDonald, Regional Director Katherine As our last edition for 2008 reaches you, I hope you are looking forward to a good Christmas break and I hope plenty of the excellent rain has fallen on you. I hope too that you can reflect back on a worthwhile year and are looking forward to 2009 with optimism. For our part we have a very full year and with the recent changes in our department, next year will not be dull. Our Chief Executive John Carroll has left and Richard Galton is our acting departing head in the interim. Once a permanent appointment has been made, the Chief Executive will be based in Alice Springs, as will the head of Primary Industries, Rod Gobbey. With our new department, we have taken over responsibility for regional development. That group will be headed by Fran Kilgariff, also based in Alice Springs. Phil Anning will move from Alice Springs, where he has been Regional Director for many years, and lead the Regional Development division in Katherine. The Primary Industry Group has also been reorganised, bringing the laboratories and research farms directly under the operational divisions. The main changes for the Katherine region are that the Crops, Forestry & Horticulture Division will be renamed ‘Plant Industries’ and enlarged by including the plant pathologists and entomologists who support the crops and horticulture industries. Congratulations We also have a lot to celebrate and should start with congratulations to two recent award winners. The Indigenous Pastoral Program won the top project category at the NLC Employer Excellence Awards. Brian Heim, head of Primary Industries at Charles Darwin University’s rural campus was declared the best Trade and Skills Teacher of 2008. Brian is valued colleague and also a member of the Katherine Pastoral Industry Advisory Committee (KPIAC). It is particularly pleasing to see someone getting recognised for teaching valuable industry skills, such as pregnancy-testing. Kieren McCosker has been appointed as overall project CONTENTS manager for the North Australian “Cash Cow” project, The Katherine Rural Review is prepared by the Department of which is a huge project, running across all three Regional Development, Primary Industry, Fisheries and northern states. This appointment is a significant Resources, Katherine. recognition of Kieren’s skills and reflects considerable It is designed to provide advice to people in primary industry in the credit to our department. For the next 3 years, Kieren Katherine region. will concentrate virtually full–time on this project and For further information please contact Karley (08) 8973 9739. completing a PhD. This edition includes information about: Kieren has also had other things to celebrate this year Christmas Message from the RD ----------------------------------- 1 with his marriage to Rowena in August. Another How to Start Changing Our World ---------------------------------- 2 wedding was Caz Smith (Pastoral), who became Caz NT Liveweight Gain Project ------------------------------------------ 4 Pettit in May. Caz has moved with husband Mark to the Rangelands 2008: Taking the Pulse ------------------------------- 5 Police Station at Daly River, where she will still work with us part time. Kidman Beef-Up Forum ----------------------------------------------- 6/7 New NTAgA Projects --------------------------------------------------- 8/9 KRS has had three babies this year, all boys. Shannon Lingard (Finance) welcomed son Cooper in May, Di & Katherine’s New GLM Officer----------------------------------------- 9 Richie Renfree (Crops) had Jock in September and NT Brands Audit --------------------------------------------------------- 10/11 most recently Trudi Oxley (Pastoral) with son Ian born a KRS Christmas Hours -------------------------------------------------- 12 few weeks ago. As Trudi will be on maternity leave until the end of April, Jane Jackson has kindly agreed to manage the Pastoral Production section for the next few months. New Staff With maternity and special projects on top of normal staff turnover, we have carried out a lot of recruitment recently. There are eight new appointments which brings us up to nearly full strength, only the recruitment of the Regional Veterinary Officer is still underway. Considering the difficulty everyone seems to have filling regional and remote jobs, we continue to be very pleased with the calibre of the candidates the department is attracting. Ellena Hannah will be returning to her home town of Katherine as a Grazing Land Management Officer. Ellena will be well known to many from her time with AACo and with our department in Alice Springs. She also worked for some time with the Pastoralists and Graziers in WA. Renee Golding has taken up the position of Beef Research Officer. Renee has worked on northern stations for some years, mainly on the Barkly. She has been working part time with the Katherine Pastoral Production section for some months now and has good skills in genetics and reproduction. Renee will be taking on much of the work started by Kieren and will also take over management of the herd developed by Gehan Jayawardhana. Trish Cowley has returned from her study leave in Queensland and takes up a Pastoral Research Officer position. Among her projects will be the Liveweight Gain Project, which is a major study of the factors that are currently limiting steer growth, and the Truck Driver’s Course (aka Northern Livestock Transporters Short Course) training which she has previously been heavily involved with. Katie McLintock is our newly appointed Stock Inspector. Katie was at KRS earlier this year as part of a student placement through Gatton College. Katie is from Biloela and has significant industry experience. Another new face at KRS will also be well known to many producers. Tracey McComish has moved from Douglas Daly and started work in the KRS office on 15 December. Our new quarantine officer is Mark Simpson, who has had many years experience with quarantine in our department and later with AQIS. Plant Industries also have two more staff starting soon. Andrew Davies will take up the position of team leader in the New Year. Andrew worked at KRS as part of the cotton project some years ago. He has just returned from Japan where he has been undertaking advanced genetic research. The other new appointment, Dior Hussey, will be known to many farmers as she has worked with the department for the last year as a graduate. Dior will now be a full-time research officer working with Malcolm Bennett. On a sad note, we should honour Mauricio Perez who sadly died approximately two months ago. Many in the Katherine cattle industry will remember his enthusiasm, skill and lively personality in the years when he was the Katherine Regional Veterinary Officer. All at KRS wish all our readers a happy, safe and wet Christmas and all the best for 2009. How to Start Changing Our World: One Step at a Time… Trudi Oxley, Pastoral Extension Officer DRDPIFR All producers are aware that, to remain sustainable with ever decreasing profit margins, we need to ensure that we are constantly finding more productive and efficient ways of doing business. Industry research is imperative to ensure long-term viability and you may not be aware of the channels open to you to have a say in directing where your research levy dollars go. The Pastoral Production division of DRDPIFR has a number of industry advisory groups across the NT. Members include local producers, who meet two or three times a year to provide comment and feedback on research undertaken by the Department. The local advisory committee is known as the Katherine Pastoral Industry Advisory Committee or KPIAC. Page 2 of 12 Katherine Rural Review, Issue 293 Recent local projects that the committee has initiated or endorsed which have received funding from MLA and/or DRDPIFR in recent years include: • Stock Management Course for stockcamps in the Katherine region. • 2004 Pastoral Industry Survey • Improving Heifer Performance • Katherine Region Best Practice Manual • Liveweight Gain Project • Northern Livestock Transporters Short Course (Truck Driver’s Course) KPIAC, through the chairperson, is involved in endorsing research proposals from both the Katherine region and across Northern Australia for funding from MLA. This means that the bulk of research conducted in Northern Australia has had support from a wide range of producers from across the north. KPIAC is also a Regional Beef Research Committee (RBRC) and, as the current chairperson of KPIAC, Keith Holzwart attends meetings of the 11 RBRC chairpersons from across northern Australia. This committee of RBRC chairs, in addition to representatives from the major research providers, is known as the North Australian Beef Research Council or NABRC. The Council consolidates and supports the planning and prioritising activities of the RBRCs and collates them into a perspective that reflects State and National objectives. Functions of NABRC: • To provide an efficient and effective mechanism for productive interaction and networking, and development of professional relationships within and between industry sectors. • To collate the outputs from RBRCs and to develop a statement of issues, priorities and objectives, including an analysis of resource needs for research for the north Australia beef industry which may take the form of a strategic plan. • To facilitate the acquisition of the necessary resources to achieve the stated objectives. • To promote the research needs of the beef industry. • To liaise with appropriate bodies responsible for external funding of research. • To consult with other influential committees and bodies relevant to the beef industry. • To receive reports from RBRCs and to interact with them. • To be a focal point for expert opinion on research needs for the north Australia beef industry. • To commission appropriate reviews of north Australia beef research programs and projects.
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